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We
will perform the upload of the sample reports set that accompanies Reporting Services to gain hands-on practice with the process, as well
as to provide reports upon which to base other managing activities in this and
prospective articles.

1.
Click Upload
File atop the Folder View, Content tab.

The Upload
File page appears.

2.
Click Browse.

Navigate
to the location of the sample reports (again, the Samples folder is installed
within the Reporting Services program folder by default. A common
example of this default path appeared in the "Accessing the Sample
Reports" section above.)

The Samples
folder appears in the Choose File dialog, once located, as depicted in Illustration 6.

The
sample report definition files (.rdl's) and other object files
appear. At this point, we will select the Company Sales report
definition files.

5.
Click the Company
Sales.rdl file, as shown in Illustration 7.

Illustration 7: Selecting
the Company Sales.rdl File from among the Sample Set

6.
Click the Open
button on the dialog.

The Company
Sales file, along with default title (which we can change), appear in the
respective boxes of the Upload File page, as depicted in Illustration
8.

Illustration 8: The
Company Sales Report - Selected for Upload

NOTE: If you have already uploaded one
or more of the sample reports, you can choose to overwrite report(s) of the
same name that have been uploaded, or simply give the new report(s) new name(s),
or place it / them within a new folder you can create on the fly.

7.
Click OK.

The
report file uploads. We can see it appear listed on the Folder view, Content
tab, where we saw the new data source appear, as depicted in Illustration
9.